Surprised (although I shouldn’t have been) to run across a contribution from James Thurber in this paperback, Great Flying Stories, published in 1958 by Dell. You can see on the cover that Thurber gets top billing, right beside Charles Lindbergh. The Thurber piece, “The Greatest Man In The World,” originally appeared in The New Yorker February 7, 1931. Below is a
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A favorite pastime here at the Spill is looking up classic New Yorker drawings (cartoons) to see them as they originally appeared in magazine. This being Thurber Thursday (and even if it wasn’t) I had a hankerin’ to see one of my favorite Thurber drawings in its natural habitat. My first stop was Bowden’s JamesThurber: A Bibliography to find the
Read moreToday’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Sara Lautman’s Boomer. Ms. Lautman has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2016. Visit her website here. ___________________________________ Today’s Daily Shouts “Small Wins At The Grocery Store” by Jeremy Nguyen. Mr. Nguyen has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2017. Visit his website here. __________________________________________- Meet The Artist (1943):
Read moreHeads Roll At Esquire: Cartoon Editor Let Go From The New York Post, June 6, 2019, “Esquire Magazine Faces Turmoil Amid Masthead Exodus” — among those let go: the magazine’s cartoon and humor editor. _____________________________ A New Yorker State Of Mind Two-Fer A favorite blog looks at the two issues shown above. Peter Arno did the cover on
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